Manifolding attachment for typewriters



Mar. 13, 1923.

T M. L. COSSITT.

MANIFOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR TYPEWRTTERS.

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MANI FOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR TYPEWRITERS. FILED JUNE 17. 1922.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFica.

MALCOLM L. CO SSITT, OF ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO MANIFOLD AR IMPRESSIONS CORPORATION, OF C OF NEVADA.

SON CITY,- NEVADA, A CORPORATION MANIFOLDIN G ATTACHMENT FOR TYPEWRITERS.

Application filed June 17, 1922. Serial No. 569,137.

To alt whom it may concern:

ing Attachments for Typewriters, of which following is a specification.

i y invention relates to that class of manifolding attachments for typewriters and the like, which comprises one or more manifolding members, and means for mounting them, whereby they are adapted to be moved into and out of functional position in the line of type impact.

The object of my invention is a simple and efi'ective attachment of this nature, adapted especially for the employment of a plurality of manifolding members; and to this my invention consists companying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my attachment.

Fig. 2 is an end view and section on the line 2- 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View, enlarged, of the means for pivotally carrying the ribbonbearing links.

Fig. 4 is a the lower end links.

F ig. 5 is a front elevation of the same showing the ribbon clipped to the link.

ig. 6 is a front view of one of the links, showing a modification in the mounting of the manifolding member.

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 77 of Fi 6.

Fig. 8 is a view partly in section showing a modification in the mounting of the ribon carrying members.

Fig. 9 is an end View of the same.

Fig. 10 is a sectional view showing another modification of the mounting of the ribbon carrying members.

1 is the platen-carriage of a typewriter;

perspective view enlarged of of one of the ribbon bearing bracket 10, fixed to provide 1 the ends entered of the platen-carriage are pivoted at 7 th e arms 8, one at each end.

above the platen, and are connected by a bar 9.

pon the bar 9, near each end, is fitted a by a set screw 11. The bracket 10 has a short shaft 12 upon which onnected to and between the free extremities of each pair of links 13 is a bar 15, of which are provided with fingers 15' for the detachable connection between them of a manifolding ribbon 16.

To one of the arms 8 is pivoted at 17 a lever 17, the lower end of which carries a roller 18.

Upon the platen shaft 3 at one end of the platen is fixed a cam 19, upon which the foot roller 18 of the lever 17 rests.

he operation of the attachment is as follows If, as is obvious, the arms 8 about their pivotal be turned centers 7 to or towards or back of an upright position, the manifolding ribbons 16 will be elevated to a position out of the way and will present no interference to enterin the sheets of papers as usual.

When t e paper sheets have been entered and turned about the laten to upper edges in front of Figs. 1 and 2, and are there held by the foot roller 18 of the lever 17 resting on the cam 19,-Fig. 2. In this position all the manifolding ribbons 16 lie in front of the platen but of type-impact, as seen in Fig. 2, and are between the paper carrying sheets, for the sake of clearness, not being here shown.

Now, the lever 17 is turned about its pivot 17 in such wise that its foot roller 18 travsufiicient to carry the manifolding ribbons 16 down into the line of type impact, all as shown by the dotted lines in The typing operation of the machineis then proceeded with, and at each line spacing movement of the platen, the cam 19 on the platen shaft, acting on the foot roller 18 of lever 17 will slightly change the position of the arms 8 and thus vary the position of the manifolding ribbons with respect to their width, so that the ribbons may be used over practicall their entire width.

Thus far it has been assumed that all the ribbons have been in use for the preparation of a plurality of duplicate copies. f, however, butv one of the ribbons is required, the operation is as follows. The arm 8 having been thrown forward to carry all the ribbons to the position of the full lines in Fig. 2, in which they lie above the line of type impact, two of the ribbon-carrying links 13 are taken hold of by their handles 13 and are turned upon their pivots at 12, to one side. These links being connected by the bars 15 with their corresponding links at the other end, the pairs of links move sidewise, parallel ruler fashion, with the effect of lifting up their respective ribbons to a slightly higher position, leaving the remaining ribbon depressed. This movement is clearly. shown in Fig. 1, the single ribbon being shown in full lines and the slightly elevated links in dotted lines.

Now, when the lever 17 is thrown back, to move forward its foot roller 18 as heretofore described, all the ribbons will move down, but only one of them will reach the line of type impact, the others being still elevated above said line. Thus any one or more of the ribbons may bepresented to the line of type impact.

I have heretofore referred to the manifolding members as ribbons. Such a form is not, however, essential as such members may be in the form of sheets of carbon paper.

' To illustrate such form, I refer to Figs. 6 and 7, in which one of the links 13 is shown. Secured to this link and extending to and secured to the opposite link, not shown, is a container 20 in which is housed either in fan-fold shape or in roll shape, a sheet of carbon paper 21, adapted to be drawn down and out from the container to present successive' narrow areas, as required, to the line of type impact. Although in these Figs. 6 and 7 T have shown only one link and one carbon sheet container, it is clear that a pluas rality of these may be used, subject to the ment independently masses same selective operation heretofore described.

Tn case the parallel-ruler movement as hereinbefore' described, to provide for selective temporary removal of any one or more of the plural ribbons from immediate use, be not desired, the arrangement may be modified as illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9 in which the ribbon carrying members 13 are pivotally connected with the bar 9 of the arms 8 by means of a pin 22 secured to each end of said bar, and upon which pinthe arms are pivoted and are set by a thumb nut 23. The arms are, therefore, adapted, as shown by the dotted lines, to be independently swung up out of the way about the pin 22 as an axis.

In case the movement of the arms as shown in Figs. 8 and 9 be used, the connection of each pair to enable them to swing in unison, may be modified as shown in Fig. 10, wherein each pair of arms 13 are carried upon its own separate sleeve 24: nested for independent rotation upon the rod 25.

I claim 1. A manifold attachment for typewriters comprising a pair of connected spaced arms, pivotally mounted on the platen-carriage of the machine and adapted for swinging movement in a vertical arc above the platen; a pair of spaced members carried by said arms; a manifolding member carried by said spaced members; and a movable controlling stop carried by one of said arms, and adapted by its movement to vary the position of the arms when the latter are depressed, whereby the manifolding member is moved into and out of the line of type impact.

2. A manifolding attachment for typewriters comprising a pair of connected spaced arms pivotally mounted on the platen-carriage of the machine and adapted for swinging movement in a vertical arc above the platen; a pair of spaced members carried by said arms and adapted for moveof the movement .of said arms; a manifolding member carried by said spaced members; and a movable controlling stop carried by one of said arms, 115 and adapted by its movement to vary the position of the arms when the latter are depressed, whereby the manifolding member is moved into and out -of the line of type impact. 120

3. A manifolding attachment for typewriters comprising a pair of connected arms pivotally mounted on the platen-carriage of the machine and adapted for swinging movement in a vertical arc above the platen; 125 a pair of spaced connected links carried by said arms and adapted for swinging movement independently of the movement of said arms, in a planeparallel with the platen axis; a manifolding member carried by said 190 pair of spaced links;

' controlling stop carried and a movable controlling stop carried by one of said arms.

and adapted by its movement to vary the po e co sition of the arms when the latter are dethe manifolding member is I pressed, whereb moved into an pact. I

4. A manifolding attachment for typewriters comprising a pair of arms-pivotally mounted on the platen-carriage of the machine and adapted for swinging movement in a vertical are above the platen; a bar connecting the free extremities of said arms to effect their movement in unison; a pair of spaced connected links pivotally carried by said bar and adapted for swinging movement independently of the movement of said arms, in a plane parallel with the arm connectin bar; a manifolding member carried by sai pair of spaced links; and a movable by one of said arms, and adapted by its movement to vary the position of the arms when the latter are depressed, whereby the manifolding member is moved into and out of the line of type impact.

out of the line of type ima vertical are above the platen; a plurality of independent pairs of spaced members carried by said arms, each pair being adapted for independent movement, independently of the movement of sai arms; a ma-nifolding member carried by each pair of said spaced member's; d a movable controlling stop carried by one of said arms, and adapted by its movement to vary the position of the arms when the latter are depressed, whereby the manifolding members are moved into and out of line of type impact.

manifolding attachment for t writers comprising a pair of connected arms pivotally mounted on the platen-carriage of the machine and adapted for swinging movement in a vertical arc above the platen; a plurality of independenttkpairs of spaced conmovement of said arms in a plane parallel with the platen axis; a manifolding member carried by each pair of said spaced links; and a movable controlling stop carried by one of said arms, and adapted vary the position of the arms when the latter are depressed, whereby the manifolding members are moved into and out of the line of type impact.

7. .A manifolding attachment for typewriters comprising a pair of arms pivotally mounted on the platen carriage of the machine and adapted for swinging movement the arms are depressed to impact at each by its movement to.

in a vertical arc above the platen; a bar connecting the free extremltles of said arms to pairs said .pair of spaced members carried by said arms a manifolding member carried by said spaced members; a sto lever pivotally carried by one of said arms; and a supporting member with which said lever coacts when vary the position of said arms and move the manifolding member into and outof the line of type impact.

swinging movement in a vertical are above the platen; a pair of spaced-members carried by said arms; a manifolding member carried by said spaced members; a movable pressed, whereby the manifolding member is primarily varied with relation to the line of type impact; and means acting on said stop to automatically vary the position of the manifolding ribbon when in the line oftype line spacing of the platen.

anifold attachment for typewritof connected, spaced whereby the manifolding member is primarily varied with relation to the line of type impact; and means acting on said stop to automatically vary the position of the manifolding ribbon when in the line of type impact at each line spacing of the platen, consisting of a cam in the axis of the platen.

11. A manifolding attachment for typesaid links on the platen carriage of the ma.-

chine adapting them for movement to carry the manifolding member into and out of position in the line of type impact; and

means for pivoting said links for swinging movement parallel with the platen of the 10 machine.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

LCOLM L. COSSITT. 

